Walmart regional load manager Leo Garcia built an AI-powered tool using Google AI certification and Code Puppy to match returning truckloads, reducing empty miles and getting drivers home sooner. Garc…
Walmart regional load manager Leo Garcia used AI to build a tool that helps truck drivers get home on time by finding optimal backhaul loads. The tool, created with Walmart's in-house coding agent Cod…
Fintech company Slash reported that an employee accidentally burned $80,000 in AI tokens building a 'brainrot shooter game' called Brainrot Shooter. The employee, Nicolas Brilliante, Slash's head of s…
Five U.S. firms—Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle—are projected to invest $800 billion in AI in 2026, up from $400 billion in 2025, according to a Washington Times opinion column. The colu…
BP, 7-Eleven, Walmart, and Albertsons were sued in a class action lawsuit alleging they used Kalibrate's AI fuel-pricing tool to artificially raise gas prices in California, violating state antitrust …
Amazon moved Prime Day 2026 to June 23-26, breaking from its July tradition, as it rolls out Alexa for Shopping to replace Rufus and shift product discovery from search to AI-powered conversations. Th…
At Open Source Summit North America 2026, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) proposed an open infrastructure for agentic commerce, citing a Bain forecast that agentic shopping coul…
Major corporations including Uber, Amazon, and Walmart are rationing AI tool usage after inference costs consumed annual budgets months ahead of schedule. Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget by A…
The 2026 Fortune 500 companies generated record revenue of $21 trillion and profits of $2.1 trillion, but total headcount fell for the second straight year to 30.5 million, down 1%. The decline was dr…
Uber, Meta, and Amazon have imposed caps on employee AI tool usage after costs skyrocketed, with Uber burning through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. The restrictions follow widespread overu…
Major fashion retailers are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence across shopping, design, and customer engagement, with Walmart developing an agentic shopping assistant called 'Sparky' and pa…
AT&T has begun limiting some employees' access to GitHub Copilot, and Meta is reining in staff spending on Anthropic and other AI tools, marking a shift from 'tokenmaxxing' to 'tokenminimizing' as ent…
Walmart launched an Onn Outdoor Floodlight Camera for $77 that integrates with Google Home, offering a 1080p camera, 2,500 lumens of brightness, and free 3-hour cloud recordings, undercutting Google's…
Google Ads is shifting to serve AI agents that shop on behalf of consumers, with agentic commerce driving $67 billion in global sales during Cyber Week 2025. Product feeds are becoming bidding signals…
Taylor Mitchell of Greenville, SC, built a seven-figure creator business as a stay-at-home mom by driving affiliate sales for Walmart and other retailers, flipping the traditional roles in her marriag…
AI shopping agents are not ready for widespread use due to security, liability, and standardization issues, according to experts at Fortune Brainstorm Tech. Panelists highlighted challenges including …
OpenAI is expanding its free Academy platform with three certification tiers designed to validate AI skills for working professionals, with a pilot that began in late 2025 and a companion Jobs Platfor…
GreyOrange CEO Akash Gupta discussed AI-powered warehouse orchestration on The Robot Report Podcast, highlighting the company's GreyMatter platform that coordinates robots and workers in real time. Th…
Walmart announced at its Associates Week gathering that it will deploy artificial intelligence across job functions including clothing design and truck coordination, while offering all U.S. staffers t…
Elon Musk will take SpaceX public next week at a valuation of $1.77 trillion, making him the world’s first trillionaire and triggering a wave of massive AI company IPOs. Anthropic and OpenAI are prepa…